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Run defenses the Ravens have faced

Since we are all worried about the YPA the Ravens run game is achieving, I thought it would be good to look at the YPA allowed by the 3 defenses they've faced.

CAVEAT: I recognize that with only 3 games played, these defensive performances against OUR run game will significantly bias the numbers.

However, I was pretty happy to see the numbers anyway.

Denver is #1 in the NFL, allowing only 2.3 YPA
Cleveland is #2 in the NFL allowing only 2.8 YPA
Houston is #5 in the NFL allowing only 3.3 YPA

What this tells me is that even though the Ravens helped boost the ratings of those defensive numbers, the defenses must be pretty good to hold all three of their opponents to such low rush averages. So I'm not writing off the Ravens running game as broken quite yet.

Buffalo is #23 in the NFL allowing 4.3 YPA. I'm betting that we see significantly more success rushing on Sunday. If we don't, then I'll start worrying.

Re: Run defenses the Ravens have faced

Oh, ok. I looked around for an existing thread to post this on, but didn't see one that looked like a fit. The o-line thread is off the front page so I figured it was cold.

I also posted on this in another thread, but I'm glad you started a new thread on it since it didn't gain any traction amongst the panic. Nice job putting the numbers together. It's hard for me to believe that the entire offensive line collectively and concurrently got bad. After this game and we'll have a better idea.

Re: Run defenses the Ravens have faced

So is our run game actually not that bad and we've just faced really good run defenses? OR, did our horrible run game make those defenses look better than really are and skew there numbers since it's only been 3 games? Guess we find out which is true this Sunday.

Re: Run defenses the Ravens have faced

Originally Posted by YorkRavensFan

So is our run game actually not that bad and we've just faced really good run defenses? OR, did our horrible run game make those defenses look better than really are and skew there numbers since it's only been 3 games? Guess we find out which is true this Sunday.

Our YPA is 2.6. So we did BETTER against Denver than their other opponents did. We did roughly the same against the Browns as their other opponents, but Adrian Petersen was one of their other opponents. We helped Houston's average. But we were only 1/3 of their stats, so the other two teams couldn't have done too well.

Re: Run defenses the Ravens have faced

Originally Posted by Gatorman82

Our YPA is 2.6. So we did BETTER against Denver than their other opponents did. We did roughly the same against the Browns as their other opponents, but Adrian Petersen was one of their other opponents. We helped Houston's average. But we were only 1/3 of their stats, so the other two teams couldn't have done too well.

It's worth noting that Cleveland held Peterson to 86 yards and 3.44 ypc.

Re: Run defenses the Ravens have faced

watching Bills/Jets, the Bills did a nice job in the first half and seemed to stay in their base D most of the time. It was the 2nd half when some big runs broke through. Also they play man to man on the backend and gave up some huge plays down the sidelines, Flacco is the best at those.

Bills played mostly four man front in the first and stacked the box in the second but ironically it worked against them